The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program
New Member Artists 2025
EFA Studio Program Welcomes Nine New Member Artists
Armando Cortés is an artist whose practice builds on storytelling, object making, and performance traditions. He merges traditional forms and methods from his native México with broader Latin American literary traditions, and contrasts and hybridizes them with elements of his life in the United States.
Sean Fader is an artist that primarily works with photo media. Fader’s project Insufficient Memory involved photographing, archiving and memorializing queer people that were murdered in 1999 and 2000 across 38 states. The documentation was finally developed into a Google Earth Interactive Tour accessible to all.
Cadence Gierbach works with paintings and sculptures that combine symbols and images of nature and the cosmos to explore how humans interact with the living world and envision their connection with the earth and the sky.
Lise Kjaer is an interdisciplinary artist who works with old and new media ranging from large-scale textile installations to pinhole photography, digital video, and light projections. Kjaer explores ways in which we navigate the world through filters of senses, losses and desires to construct individual, intergenerational, and cultural meta-narratives.
Pablo Garcia Lopez is an immigrant artist from Spain. In addition to his scientific career, Dr. Garcia-Lopez pursued his passion for visual art. His artistic practice often bridges the gap between science and art, incorporating neuroscientific concepts into sculptural forms.
Vidal Mouet is an abstract painter. Mouet only uses the canvas, shaped stretch bars, oil colors, and space to paint and form things seen in his everyday life; from a stack of coffee cups leaning towards the counter to the edges of an open magazine.
Jan Mun is a media artist that creates social sculptures working with digital and living media. The landscape has become her framework to unfold stories about others and herself by using a combination of artistic and scientific processes that manifest in the form of interactive installations, photography, performance, and bio-art. Jan creates interfaces to elicit participation as a reflection and critique of our political and social systems.
Heather Renée Russ works across experimental photography, installation and bio-art. Her multidisciplinary practice incorporates queer femme signifiers and organic materials into works that engage with queer geographies, femme labor and climate grief. Russ comes from a rich history of organizing in underground art scenes.
Yu-Wen Wu subjectivity as an immigrant is central to her artwork, creating an intersection of personal narrative and global discourse. Arriving at an early age, her experiences have shaped her work in areas of migration, examining issues of displacement, assimilation, and the shape of identity in a new country.
